URECAT - UFO Related Entities Catalog

1930 - Small humanoid alien shows up at a farm in Mandurah, W.A., Australia, asking for water. Shot to death by terrified farmer.

1930

AUSTRALIA, Mandurah

All of a sudden, in the evening, in Beryl Hickey's father's house appeared a small, bald man with big ears, a wide, lipless mouth, bulging eyes, shining all over his body as if smeared with fat, with small hands and pink feet well-formed like those of a baby, about 50 cm high. Her father, who was a very Christian man, thought it was the devil. He cast a net on this creature to evacuate it out. It screamed like a mouse. It was forbidden for Beryl to speak of this event to anyone, but she secretly confided to a friend. The latter reminded her of that at the exit of the "ET" movie. (Janet and Colin BORD: Modern Mysteries of the World "- Guild Publishing London 1989, p.147) Small humanoids appear on a Mandurah farm and ask for water, and the terrified farmer shot them down. A CENTURY OF UFO - UFO Roundup Dec. 1999, Joseph Trainor Publishing)

AN "ET" ELF IN A MANDURAH HUMPY?

In 1982 a 67 year old woman saw a picture of "ET", Steven Spielberg's cute alien creation. It made her think of an experience she had as a 15 year old girl, near the estuary at Mandurah, Western Australia. She supplied a report to the Perth UFO Research Group which stated:

"(In 1930 I was) sitting reading with my parents in a humpy, on a block in Mandurah, in Greary Rd, by the light of a hurricane lamp, with the door partly open. The time (was) about 8 pm as we went to bed early. "A little pink creature walked in. (It was) about 24 inches in height (with) large ears, big bulbous eyes, covered with a film, small hands, large feet, slit of a mouth, no hair, and shiny as if wet or oily. "We were terrified and my father went white and being a religious man said it was the work of the devil. "Picking up a prawning net, he picked it up in it and it made a noise like 'EE...EE' and my father put it outside. We never saw it again and went to bed feeling very scared. This was in 1930 and I never thought any more about it until I saw a picture of 'ET,' although only its eyes were the same. ... It did not have a round body, more straight down like a child's body. I cannot remember seeing any sex organs... (It's shape was) like an elf." (7)

Before we leave this quaint tale behind, I will mention anthropologist's Dr. Charles Mountford's description of a "spirit child" in his fascinating study, Nomads of the Australian Desert:

"This child, called mulu-kuranti (nose-spirit), was a mamu (malignant being). Its fingers were twisted, it had ears like a kangaroo, large eyes resembling those of an owl, a grotesque face, and projecting teeth. When Kuntunga (mother of all spirit-children, the "julanja") was suckling this infant, it bit her so often that she finally killed it and left the body in the creek, where it was transformed into (an) irregularly-shaped boulder." (8)

(7): Perth UFO Research Group sighting report form, 1982
(8): Nomads of the Australian Desert, by Charles Mountford, 1976

1930 Mandurah WA

A sixty-seven year old woman recounted how at age fifteen she had seen a sixty centimetre (60cm) tall, pink creature. It had large ears, a slit mouth, big bulbous eyes and small hands. It was bald and shiny. She said her father wrapped the creature in a net and put it outside.

(PUFORG)

The Juminda "frog-man" resembles grotesque small humanoids seen by Beryl Hickey and her father at Mandurah, Western Australia, in their house one night in 1930, and by a man gathering Christmas trees on December 15, 1956 in woods near Derry, New Hampshire -- in both cases, again with no mention of a UFO. The Mandurah creature was about 20 inches tall, glistened as though wet or covered with oil, and had pink skin, big ears, a wide slit mouth, bulging eyes covered with a film and "perfectly formed little hands and feet." It squeaked in fright when the Hickey father captured and dragged it outside with a prawning net. [... Other case ...]

(Bord and Bord, 'Unexplained Mysteries of the Twentieth Century', pp. 147, 151-152).

1930 Mandurah WA

A sixty-seven year old woman recounted how at age fifteen she had seen a sixty centimetre (60cm) tall, pink creature. It had large ears, a slit mouth, big bulbous eyes and small hands. It was bald and shiny. She said her father wrapped the creature in a net and put it outside.

(PUFORG)

Ca. 1930 Mandurah, WA (31:57, 115:51)

A sixty seven year old woman recounted how at age fifteen she had seen a sixty centimetre tall, pink creature. It had large ears, a slit mouth, big bulbous eyes and small hands. It was bald and shiny. She said her father wrapped the creature in a net and put it outside.

Source: Perth UFO Research Group (PUFORG).

Date: 1930

Location: Mandurah Western Australia

Time:

Summary: A strange little entity suddenly appeared at night in the ancestral home of Beryl Hickey, a small entity one-meter tall, bald, pinkish in color with big ears, a wide mouth slit without lips, bulging eyes covered with some sort of film, glistening skin as if it were greased, with small hands and small feet roses trained like those of a baby, about 50 cm high. His father, who was a very Christian, thought it was the devil and threw a net on that creature, then dragged it outside. She began to cry like a mouse. It was forbidden to talk about this event to anyone, but it sounds however secret confided to a friend. It reminded him the movie “ET”. Small humanoids aparaissent a farm in Mandurah and require the water. Farmer terrified shot in gunfire

Source: Janet & Colin Bord, Unexplained Mysteries Of the 20th Century

1930.

MANDURAH (WEST AUSTRALIA : AUSTRALIA)

A 15 year old girl saw a 60cm tall bald, shiny, pink creature with large ears, a slit mouth, large bulbous eyes and small hands. Her father wrapped the creature in a net and put it outside.

Basterfield 1997 p136 citing Perth UFO Research Group

Bord 1989 p147 citing West Mail (Perth) 25 December 1982

Evaluation: Reported when the woman was 67, distorted memory of some animal. Or perhaps just a newspaper ghost story.